The U1 snRNP base pairs with the 5′ splice site within a penta-snRNP complex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3442-3455

  Malca, Hadar ^a   Shomron, Noam ^a   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CROSS LINKING; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EXONS; FICUSIN; GLYCEROL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037627610     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.10.3442-3455.2003     Document Type: Article

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